The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-08-03
THINGS


that Philip Meagher sold his wocl clip
from 5000 sheep for 19c, getting Zoe for
several hundred pounds of pulled wool.
The Montana Central have Sc nj ont a
party of surveyors to locate an overhead
line across the Wickcs mountain, to be
used IN case the big tunnel is not com.
plcted in time.
The Montana Draft Horse Company
has been organized at Billings with a
'capital of $4,000 in shares OF 800 each.
The leading stockholders are j. II. Con-
rad, Alfred Myers, II. ii. Mund, J. Nc
Ginness, B. w. Totle and J. NJ. Harris.
Rroad-guage trains are running on
time over the Utah & Northern railroad.
The road has in the space of four days
been transformed into a standard guage
railroad, and Union Pacific cars can now
run from Omaha right into Butte and
Helena.
The Northern Pacific is e%ndeavoring
to build up Its lumber trade between
Washington Territory and the east and
has made the very low rate ofsixty cents
between Puget Sound and st. Paul and
Chicago, st. Louis, Omaha and Kansas
City.
Walter D. Strong, a brother of Byron
Strong, ofChestnus, Mont, died suddenly
OF heart disease at Murray, Idaho, on
the 24th inst, The remains were brought
to Helena on Tuesday and inferred.
Walter was a resident of Billings in its
early days.
Capital Guards, the Helena cavalry
company, have sent east for fifty sabres
and belts. The Territorial appropriation
will not co~verthese articles, and the boys
intend to have them even if they have
to pay for them out oftheirown pockets,
John Murray. who is working placer
diggings on Indian creek, is having a
successful season. Not long ago he made
n cleanup of about $4,000 in gold,
and it is expected that the output of his
mines for the whole season will not be
less than $50,O00.-Husbandman.
Charley O'Neil was almost instantly
killed by a delayed explosion at Sand
Coulee Sunday night. In company with
another, O'Neil prepared two shots, and
not hearing the second one explode,
descended the mine to ascertain the
cause. Suddenly the explosion occurred
knocking him down and injuring HIM so
severely as to cause his death shortly
afterwards.
J.F. Wilson, who came recently from
Iowa, has been appointed clerk of the
probate court at Helena in place IF MI.
Clark, who intends to practice law.
Eastern men seem to be in demand and
readily secure fat official positions.
IT'S a precedent W. should like TO see
oblfpeTated.
The shipments IF wool were 1875 47
pounds up to the 21st instant. The
places to which the wool was sent are as
follows: Boston, 21s.335 ID; st. Louis,
$4,000; Philadelphia, 1886; Duluth,
29.577; Chicago, 10000.
Captain James H. Mills, of the New
North-W West, will deliver the annual
address before the Montana Press Associ-
alton, which meets at Helena the latter
part of August. Correspondence is now
being conducted with the railroads, most
Of whom have offered Il considerable re-
duction from the regular fare for the
members and their families.
At the conclusion of the trial of the
participants in the Philipsburg yigilante
affair, all, with the exception of Charles
Porter, were nut under bonds in the sum
ofS1 900 each to appear before the grand
jury. The names of those bound over
are: James Patten, Mike Shovelin, w.
NJ. Burke, N. b. Ringing, Joe Napkey,
L. Porter, Joseph Valley, Hugh McDon-
nell and Mark Sullivan.
The clerk of the probate court says
that the Congressional law, requiring all
elergy-men aud civil officers who per-
form marriage ceremonies to have them
recorded in the probate court within
sixty days, Is not being complied with.
The law went intoeiIect March Sd ofthis
year, and the penalty provided Tor ITS
violation is quite severe.-Inter Noun
tain.